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I really want to express who I really am.'" And in a sense Evangelista's music is a very specific response to wartime disenfranchisement, written by an artist who describes herself as a "really, really far-left progressive, politically, and I feel like music is one of our only ways that we can organize. Fundamentalists still have that leg up on us. They aren't afraid to join together."

Bozulich has done it before: fronting her old group Ethyl Meatplow  during which the shy girl who once sang behind drum kits "really learned to be a badass"  she changed lives: "People still come up to me saying really great things like, 'We conceived our child in the bathroom at an Ethyl Meatplow show.' And there's several people who have said, 'I came out of the closet just from listening to Ethyl Meatplow'  and that's political. That's great!" She stares out at the fast-food drive-throughs that surround even this tiny show, and the sweet recording deals, massive crowds, and Iggy Pop opening slots don't seem like much after all. "I've just been very lucky, you know."